Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society
The Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society is an academic organization that promotes scholarship in Early Modern Studies by hosting an annual conference. The conference is held alternately in the United States and Canada and is open to all scholars and graduate students from North America.
Traditionally the conference features two plenary speakers (speakers in the past have included Stephen Greenblatt, Barbara Lewalski, and Alexander Leggatt), up to twenty sessions of three to four papers each, a formal dinner and a business lunch.
The PNRS is an affiliate of both the Renaissance Society of America and the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies.
2008 Annual Conference
Hyatt Regency, Vancouver, British Columbia
April 3-5, 2008
Conference Program (pdf)
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Plenary Speakers: Fran Dolan (University of California, Davis) and Elizabeth Harvey (University of Toronto)
MEMBERSHIP
Membership in the society is $10 a year. Please send a cheque made out to the PNRS to:
Prof. Clifford Werier
Dept. of English
Mount Royal College
4825 Richard Rd. SW
Calgary, Alberta T3E 6K6
SOCIETY OFFICERS
President, Patrick Finn (St. Mary's University College)
Treasurer, Clifford Werier (Mount Royal College)
Secretary, Patricia Badir (University of British Columbia)
Member-at-large, Paul Budra (Simon Fraser University)